{"id":617,"date":"2012-10-10T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/?p=617"},"modified":"2015-02-22T21:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:34:43","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be-its-all-in-the-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2012\/10\/10\/to-be-or-not-to-be-its-all-in-the-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"To be or not to be, it&#8217;s all in the translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of curiousity, I dropped\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0<a title=\"Soliloquy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soliloquy\">soliloquy<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"William Shakespeare\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\">William Shakespeare<\/a>&#8216;s play\u00a0<em><a title=\"Hamlet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamlet\">Hamlet<\/a><\/em>\u00a0into Google translate.<\/p>\n<p>The results are surprisingly accurate; given that it&#8217;s in 1623 English, I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;d do much better myself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tobeonnottobe1623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"To be or not to be translation GB-FR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tobeonnottobe1623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1117\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tobeonnottobe1623.jpg 1117w, https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tobeonnottobe1623-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tobeonnottobe1623-1024x839.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1117px) 100vw, 1117px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking the &#8216;modern&#8217; version from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosweatshakespeare.com\/quotes\/hamlet-to-be-or-not-to-be\/\">nosweatshakespeare.com<\/a>, the result is frankly convincing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tbontbmodern1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-621\" title=\"To be or not to be, modern\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tbontbmodern1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1283\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tbontbmodern1.jpg 1283w, https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tbontbmodern1-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2012\/10\/tbontbmodern1-1024x335.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1283px) 100vw, 1283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of curiousity, I dropped\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0soliloquy\u00a0in\u00a0William Shakespeare&#8216;s play\u00a0Hamlet\u00a0into Google translate. The results are surprisingly accurate; given that it&#8217;s in 1623 English, I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;d do much better myself: Taking the &#8216;modern&#8217; version from nosweatshakespeare.com, the result is frankly convincing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-translation","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}